Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Otherwise Rayner Goddard, 81, gave no sign that this day in court would be different from any other in his twelve years as Lord Chief Justice of England. With his crimson robe sweeping the ground, his luxuriant wig, as usual, just a trifle askew, he strode into the paneled courtroom one day last week, seated himself in his big leather chair, jotted a note or two with a tiny silver pencil, and after fumbling with his ever-precarious pince-nez motioned for the session to begin. He seemed oblivious to the unusually large crowd that jammed the galleries. He might...
Sheriffs from a dozen neighboring counties sat together in the courtroom to show their regard for lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Buster Treloar. Encouraged, Sheriff Treloar admitted on the stand that he had rapped Daniel once to make him behave after his arrest for bootlegging and speeding, and that in the jail he had tapped Daniel three or four times on the shoulder and buttocks. Sure, he also nudged him with a toe to sit up for Dr. McMillan. Argued one of Treloar's four attorneys: "You are not trying him for whipping somebody. You're trying...
...regularly top-rated shows. In the most recent survey, the U.S. export oater called Wagon Train led the pack, followed by a typically British whodunit series (Murder Bag) featuring diabolically clever homicides. One other U.S. show made the list in the No. 10 spot: CBS's ad-lib courtroom drama, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME...
...courtroom in Algiers earlier in the week, Jacef Saadi, onetime boss of Moslem terrorists in the Algiers casbah (TIME, Oct. 7), astounded his French judges by "rallying to De Gaulle." Saadi offered no apologies for the murders he had committed in the name of the Algerian people-and for which the court promptly sentenced him to death. But, said he, "if General de Gaulle had remained on the political scene after the war, if our rights had been recognized earlier, this drama would never have happened...
...Game, CBS dares viewers either to Sing Along or Keep Talking! Away from the panels and the quiz masters, there is little in prospect to excite viewers. ABC offers Bobby Troup's Stars of Jazz as relief from the heat. CBS will try its courtroom show, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME. May 19) as an hour evening program, in addition to Verdict's weekday afternoon half-hour run. NBC is scheduling two hour-long live shows, a private-eye staple called The Investigator and the converted Kraft (Mystery) Theater...